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Charles Perrault (/ p ɛ ˈ r oʊ / peh-ROH, US also / p ə ˈ r oʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale , with his works derived from earlier folk tales , published in his 1697 book ...
Charles Perrault, French poet, prose writer, and storyteller, who played a prominent part in a literary controversy known as the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. He is best remembered for his collection of fairy stories for children, ‘Contes de ma mere l’oye’ (1697; ‘Tales of Mother Goose’).
Charles Perrault was a French writer from Paris, and an early member of the Académie Française (French Academy). He was a pioneer in the then-new literary genre of the fairy tale, publishing "Stories or Tales from Past Times" (Histoires ou contes du temps passé, 1697).
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French poet and writer, and one of the best-loved personalities of 17th century France. He is remembered today for his collection of fairytales published in 1697 under the title Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé.
Charles Perrault was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales, offered as if they were pre-existing folk tales, include: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Hop o' My Thumb), Diamonds and Toads, Patient Griselda, The Ridiculous Wishes...
May 17, 2018 · PERRAULT, CHARLES (1628 – 1703), French poet, literary theoretician, and fairy tale writer. Charles Perrault belonged to a family of middle-class government functionaries, among whom was his brother Claude, an architect best remembered for his remodeled columns on the Louvre.
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris, Perrault published several tales from the oral tradition that he modified with his own embellishments.
Famous for his Mother Goose Tales (or Tales from Past Times), Charles Perrault was a writer as well as a statesman, whom Colbert put in charge of Louis XIV’s artistic and literary policy as the Secretary of the Petite Académie, established in 1663.
17th-century French literature.
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628-May 16, 1703) Andrew Lang notes that "Charles Perrault did many things well, above all the things that he had not been taught to do, and he did best of all the thing which nobody expected him to have done. A vivid, genial and indomitable character and humor made him one of the best-liked men of his age."
